Geeklawyer, as is well recorded, is a bit of a Glastonbury festival loon. A number of lawyers have emailed and put comments elsewhere on the blog asking for guidance on fun festivals. It probably says much for lawyers that they need to ask at all: most of their peers would have spent their youth at [...]
There’s is an awful lot of rather predictable tosh going on on the other side of the pond and sycophantic empathy on this. A lot of self pity for an iconic event in which America gets to portray itself as a Victim of Terror with thousands of innocent lives lost.
Geeklawyer was working as in-house lawyer [...]
An unexpectedly funny film about whacko military special-op types engaged in paranormal techniques to fight the Enemies of Freedom™
The blurb from the Odeon website says:
Inspired by a real life story and featuring an all-star cast, ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ is a dark comedy about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military.
Reporter Bob Wilton [...]
There is news that 13 member of the infamous US state terrorist organisation the CIA have been convicted in absentia of kidnapping an Italian citizen in order to rendite him for torture by Egyptian proxies. It raises the issue of whether or not these thugs will ever see justice. The American Society for International Law [...]
There was an interesting article in the Guardian: MI5 dont want unlawful filesharers cut off the Intarwebs. This, it seems, will encourage people to use encrypted internet connections. That, in turn, will make it harder for them to spy on law-abiding citizens. The concern is that people currently using bit-torrent, Usenet or hosting services like [...]
Geeklawyer is a bit late to this story. Royal Fail has just stamped out the very useful service from ernestmarples.com that was providing free postcode data to a number of websites. Those sites provide useful socially beneficial & non-commercial services to the public (though there’s nothing wrong with them making a profit either). The Marple [...]
Geeklawyer, as is well recorded, is a bit of a Glastonbury festival loon. A number of lawyers have emailed and put comments elsewhere on the blog asking for guidance on fun festivals. It probably says much for lawyers that they need to ask at all: most of their peers would have spent their youth at [...]
Geeklawyer did review the Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds some while back. That review has mysteriously vanished from his blog. He did, however, recently watch a DVD version that he bought whilst in Toronto, the David Micheal Latt version.
It is hard to imagine anyone making a Tom Cruise film look good; hard [...]
The House of Lords heard its last case and delivered it’s verdict. The case was a important on on suicide. One wag on Twitter described this as ‘amusingly ironic‘. Geeklawyer feels less like laughing than thrusting a spear between the ribs of the nearest Neo-Labour Minister.
It’s all so fucking pointless. The theory is, as the [...]
Geeklawyer for all his macho pretensions, and notwithstanding an embarrassing 30% heterosexuality rating on the Swedish Gay Pride site, enjoys a good cocktail. A hangover from his days as an indolent student, bedding impressionable Freshers, he feels the need to indulge himself once in a while. One of his Harem suggested cocktails.
So then, to [...]